World security conference aims for new order
A reflection on the First Hague era and the path to a lasting world organization notes early steps and cautions. It questions motives amid Japan and Germany signals, urges patience, and highlights hope that postwar cooperation will gradually mature into a robust system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Athena
Zeus
Joseph C. Grew
Molotov
Ancisca
Jan Smuts
Holland
America
Britain
Asia
Russia
Ten Years Ago Sports and Civic Notes From Pella
Ten years prior, June 6, 1989, Pella’s city council secured option on eleven acres in the southeast for a pool and park with PERA engineer Vernon Fisher aiding planning. Federal funds eyed for construction, Philo Cup winner Henry Geery noted along with Burton Paulin and Margaret Vande Kieft in tennis. A Fort Madison band planned a June visit. Memorial Day speaker Dr. I. J. Lubbers discussed World War I losses. Civic League eyed a safe 4th of July with R. R. Brown as speaker. Rain in May neared a near record. Herbert Vander Zyl placed third in state high school golf. Arthur Wormhoudt won Latin in Iowa academic contests.
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Vernon Fisher
PERA
Henry Geery
Burton Paulin
Margaret Vande Kieft
Fort Madison
Towa
Pella
Pelli
I. J. Lubbers
Civic League
West Market
R. R. Brown
Omaha
Paul Lautenbach
Gerrit de Boer
E. V. Goad
Herbert Vander Zyl
Des Moines
Arthur Wormhoudt
Pella High School
State of Iowa
Farm Bureau study eyed fair farm tax values nationwide
Twenty years ago on June 11 1925 Farm Bureau continued a national tax study to equalize farm assessments with other property values. Local front page items were sparse with brief notes including a fatal Knoxville road crash of Harold Klein known as Shorty and a few social notes from Grand Junction Colorado and Pella Iowa. Reverend Anthony Haverkamp was invited to speak at the Third Reformed Church of Pella while the Federated Club planned a Home Talent Circus at the Athletic Field.
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Farm Bureau
National
Sach
Harold Klein
Shorty
Knoxville
Puritan Drug Co. Fountain
Loyde Hillyer
Grand Junction
Colorado
West Market fund fundraiser amid a varied June midway program
June 18 program featured Roovart presenting Midget Twins Jack and Sis and the largest monkey in captivity along with Iowa Gorn Remover Thimble Theatre Madame Delia Darby fortune teller Minstrels and the Bridal Pair Acts. proceeds to beautify West Market. Harold Klein and Chet Chilton from Central College headed to New Jersey in a Ford. Fred Van Doorninck named to a teaching post at Pella High and headed to Iowa City for summer school. Ray Boland and Ray Fox graduated from Town University. Boland home for weekend. all large ads from Oskaloosa stores. Pella noted in the dol drums.
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Fred van Doorninck
Pella
Iowa City
Ray Boland
Commerce Department
Town University
Ray Fox
Boland
Oskaloosa
Women Chautauqua Hosts Seven Days of Entertainment
The Women’s Federated Club sponsors a seven day chautauqua June 19 to 26 featuring lectures a band a symphony orchestra and magician Madame Reno. Traverse-Wick Co of Des Moines presents. Local graduates and notable figures shown in college and high school honors. A crowded house hears Academy Senior Class Play The Cricket on the Hearth and Turn Him Out by college literary societies. Mayor Johnson orders an out of town solicitor expelled.
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Madame Reno
Traverse-Wick Co
Des Moines
Ralph Westervelt
Marguerite Tracy
Pella High
C. C. Buerkens
Jane Gosselink
William C. Ver’ Ploeg
Sam Ver Steeg
Sam
Central College
Lelia Droz
Leland Lunt
Sara Gosselink
Fred Gezel
Harry de Cook
Burton Fuller
Perry Peterson
George
Lily van Zee
Bess Berg
Artie Smorenberg
Edna Horn
School of Expression
Tommy Green
Academy
Carl Beyers
Frances Ketman
Byers
Mabel Clayton
Gladys
Owen Neiswanger
Dirk van Zante
Pella
Bapetal
H.F. Johnson
Corhplaint
Insurance offer for farm and city property in Sally Iowa
WM. DIRLEMAN of Sally Iowa urges readers to insure farm and city property and autos with reputable companies at low rates. He promotes starting a savings plan for retirement, offers to call, and provides contact details: Phone 50 at Sally or P. O. Box 146.
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WM. Dirleman
Sally
Iowa
Townsfolk Recount Summer Plans and Purchases
The report details residents including Fred Faassen traveling to Des Moines to study pipe organ, Will Cook and wife leaving for a two month West tour via New Mexico Texas Mexico and California, and several in town buying cars from Star Auto Co with Sheesley purchasing a Ford and others Overlands. Also noted are trips to Portland to visit relatives and academic moves by professors Clayton and Van Houten.
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Fred Faassen
Des Moines
Faassen
New Mexico
Texas
Mexico
California
Will Allen
National City
William de Bruyn
Nebraska
P. A. Edmand
K. L. Klatt
Portland
Oregon
Bess
Janet de Vries
B. W. Clayton
Central
Winona Lake
Indiana
Lyman van Houten
Toledo
Iowa
Chicago U
Tulip Time revival after wartime limits in Iowa towns
The Tulip Festival in Os kal oosa County towns like Pella faces wartime constraints and gasoline rationing. With VE day near and Japan war ending, officials anticipate looser transport rules and a possible full revival of the tulip festival next spring, celebrating liberation and Dutch heritage.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Netherlands
Utrecht
Pella
FASTEETH Teeth Stabilizer Ad
FASTEETH powder sprinkles on upper or lower plates to keep teeth from sliding or rocking. It holds teeth firmly with no gummy feel and leaves a non acid alkaline balance. Helps prevent denture odor and fits easily in any drug store purchase.
Voice of the Public Bellflower May 9 1945
Dear Friends from Pella Chronicle report warm California welcome but longing for Pella and Oska loosa friends. Elmer, their son, remains in England with the air forces and may return briefly before Pacific duty. Daughter Anna stays with them. Capt Melvin Long, husband of Anna, serves with the 9th Army in Germany after surviving snipers and sending home two German guns.
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Bellflower
Pella
California
Oskaloosa
Elmer
England
Pacific
Anna
Melvin Long
9Th Army
Germany
Gysei
Friend Out West Sends News From Hanford
A brief note from Route 1 Box 459 Hanford California dated May 10 1945 reports a friend in the region sending regards and local happenings. The message emphasizes personal connection and wartime era distance.
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Hanford
Calif
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H. Sadler George Ver Steeg
By Sadler Publishing Co
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Nazi Party
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Hitler Youth Movement
Peoples Volunteer Corpt
Japan
R. D. Dow
Pella Citize
Reformed Church of America
Douw
Garden Square
Nature
Knickerbocker Weekly
Basil Wedd
1St Army
Fries Land
Wedd
Maastricht
Europe
Min
G. Bolkenstein
Univnss
Einiin
Bolkenstein
Red Rock
U. S
Commiselves
Des Moines Register
Clyde Spry
Iowa Commission
Frank Mendell
U.S. Soils Conservation Service
Spry
Feneral
Iowa Soils Conservation Commission
Safi
Fliteo
Tyme
Ven
Hargrove
Vandermeulen Hoeksema Co
Voice of
Carpenter Drug Store
Jennie Vanden Heuvel
Ko. T. A. Davis
Prairie City
H. J. Steenboek
Colfax
Hotel
Overland Greyhound Lines
Pella, Iowa
Overland
Wwe
Operated
Interstate Transit Lines
Star Oil Company
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